ChemistrySelect
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2024
·Vol. 9
·期 32
·e202401140
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IF 1.9
Yuanxin Man,Hui Nan,Jianzhe Ma,Zhike Li,Xianlan Wang,Pan Yang,Caihong Xue,Jingyuan Zhou,Heqi Li
Graphical Polyethylene glycol 10000 (PEG-10000) was selected as a dispersant for γ-AlOOH nanowhiskers in the PE coating slurry. The AlOOH-PEG/PE separator maintains its structural integrity even after a 0.5 hour test at 200 degrees Celsius, and lithium-ion battery half-cells assembled with it exhibited a capacity of 73.9 % at a 5 C rate. In this study, a γ-boehmite (γ-AlOOH) – PEG/polyethylene (PE) lithium-ion battery separator was fabricated using a dip-coating method, with γ-AlOOH nanowhiskers being synthesized directly through a hydrothermal process,and polyethylene glycol 10000 (PEG-10000) was chosen for the first time as a dispersant for the γ-AlOOH nanowhiskers in the PE coating slurry{Lee, 2014 #7}. Simultaneously, the membrane's performance was characterized, confirming the significant dispersion effect of PEG-10000, resulting in a porosity as high as 64 % in the AlOOH-PEG/PE, a substantial increase compared to the PE separator (40 %). The AlOOH-PEG/PE separator maintains its structural integrity even after a 0.5 h test at 200 °C, showcasing outstanding stability and significantly improved safety. Besides, the LIB half cells assembled with the PE/AlOOH-PEG separator exhibited remarkable performance, with a capacity of 73.9 % in power capability (at 5 C rate) and a 97.1 % discharge capacity retention rates in cycle performance (after 400 cycles, at 2 C rate). Furthermore, lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO 4 ) batteries utilizing the AlOOH-PEG/PE separator demonstrated significantly enhanced cycling stability and rate capacity.
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Materials Today Communications
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2025
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IF 4.5
Jiao Liu,Jinhu Hu,Xukang Han,Zhenyu Sheng,Yonglei Chi,Fangjiang Chi,Mingliang Ma
The rapid expansion of 5 G technology and the proliferation of electronic devices have exacerbated electromagnetic radiation pollution of urban building space and pose significant risks to human health, necessitating the development of efficient electromagnetic wave (EMW) absorbing materials for use in buildings to address this challenge. Carbon nanotubes (CNT) and magnetic materials such as Fe are widely used in this field due to their unique electromagnetic properties. In this study, γ-Fe 2 O 3 /C/CNT magnetic nanofibers were successfully prepared, exhibiting synergistic di-electric and magnetic capabilities through electrospinning and mechanical blending methods. Compared to γ-Fe 2 O 3 /C fibers and CNT, the CNT-modified composite material exhibited superior EMW absorption performance. At a low loading of 15 wt %, the γ-Fe 2 O 3 /C/CNT composite fibers achieved a minimum reflection loss (RL min ) of -78.89 dB (2.61 mm) and an effective absorption bandwidth (EAB) of 4.12 GHz (1.52 mm, 13.6-17.72 GHz). The superior EMW absorbing performance is primarily attributed to the three-dimensional network structure created by the intertwined nanofibers and CNT, through the synergy of two one-dimensional structures, which achieved good impedance matching and multiple loss mechanisms. As high-efficiency absorbing agents, γ-Fe 2 O 3 /C/CNT magnetic nanocomposite fibers have broad application prospects, serving as low-loading polymer coatings and cement-based materials absorbent to absorb radiation from electronic devices within buildings, reducing indoor electromagnetic pollution, and they can also be used in the field of military stealth. This work provides new insights into the development of efficient EMW absorbing materials.
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材料科学
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环境科学
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电磁学
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FUEL
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2022
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IF 8.035
Xinyu Yang,Zezhi Chen,Huijuan Gong,Feng Lin,Tingting Zhu,Ziyi Yang
Deoxygen is a crucial step for landfill gas (LFG) recycling and purification. Pt/γ-Al 2 O 3 is the most active catalyst for LFG deoxygen via catalytic methane oxidation . It is challenging but significant to further improve the performance of this type of catalyst. In regard of homogeneous and heterogeneous activation of methane by superacids , here we demonstrate LFG deoxygen via catalytic methane oxidation using a solid superacid catalyst, Pt/SO 4 2- /Al 2 O 3 , synthesized using pre-sulfated γ-Al 2 O 3 support by impregnated with sulfuric acid . In comparison to Pt/γ-Al 2 O 3 , Pt/SO 4 2- /Al 2 O 3 catalysts exhibit exceptionally improved activity and minimum complete O 2 conversion at a temperature of 264 ℃, a decrease of about 51 ℃. This value is superior to the state-of-the-art Pt-based deoxygen catalysts. Characterizations and theoretical calculations indicate that sulfation enhances the amount of acid sites on γ-Al 2 O 3 support and induces electron deficiency of the supported Pt species (+0.28|e|), thus boosting the low-temperature activity. Furthermore, the Pt/SO 4 2- /Al 2 O 3 catalyst maintained its initial activity after six runs without any detectable coke deposition. This discovery offers simple and effective strategies to precisely design higher performance application-oriented Pt based deoxygen catalysts.
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SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
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2025
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IF 9
Yanli Zhao,Ziqi Cao,Yanxiang Liang,Zhichen Liang,Keyin Ling,Feiyan Zhou,Changsheng Guo,Yao Qian,Pengbi Liu,Xi Liu,Chunguang Wang,Mengchen Zhang,Qinglei Zhang
Membrane consisting of high-throughput aligned ion channels has been pursued for precise Li + /Mg 2+ separation. Herein, an aligned amino-functionalized γ-cyclodextrin nanofiltration membrane was fabricated via a customized interfacial polymerization technique, where the orientation of cyclodextrin ion channels was elaborately tailored by controlling the reaction conditions. The as-fabricated membrane featured ultra-thin selective layer of ∼ 26 nm, average pore size of ∼ 0.72 nm, and ultra-stable positive surface charges. In particular, the aligned intrinsic cyclodextrin cavities in the membrane offered vertical shortcuts for preferential Li + transport. Taking advantage of these, superior membrane permselectivity was achieved with the water permeance of 6.5 L·m −2 ·h −1 ·bar −1 and the Li + /Mg 2+ separation factor up to 22.5, highlighting the great potentials in lithium extraction and other ion separations. Given its simplicity and generality, this customized interfacial polymerization strategy holds great promise for manipulating aligned transport channels in thin film composite membranes, thereby enhancing their performance in a wide range of applications including, but not limited to, desalination, water purification, resource extraction, and energy conversion.
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CATALYSIS TODAY
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2020
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IF 5.825
Lei Wang,Haiyan Liu,Yu Fan,Pei Yuan,Deqi Huang,S. Ted Oyama,Tinghai Wang,Xiaojun Bao
In alumina-based catalysts the properties of the alumina support directly influence the structure (size, morphology, orientation, etc.) of the resulting active phase and ultimately determine the performance of the final catalysts. This paper presents a facile and efficient method for γ-Al 2 O 3 to simultaneously expose {111} facets with strong acidity and {110} facets with moderate basicity. It is shown that the metal oxides NiO x and MoO x can be selectively deposited and subsequently sulfided on the respective facets to form a NiS 2 -MoS 2 /Al 2 O 3 catalyst with substantially enhanced activity for thio-etherification reaction. By cooperative action of the active sites on the newly exposed facets, the catalyst is shown to have superior activity over a conventional NiMoS/Al 2 O 3 catalyst in the thio-etherification reaction between ethanethiol and isoamylene (2-methyl-2-butene) to yield ethylamyl thioethers. Our findings show that tuning the physicochemical properties via crystal facet engineering and inducing cooperative catalysis via preferential deposition of active metals open a novel avenue for the rational design and synthesis of high performance catalysts.
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RSC Advances
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2017
·Vol. 7
·期 70
·44523-44530
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IF 3.108
Lichen Xia,Lujun Pan,Muhammad Asif,Dongmei Zhang,Muhammad Usman,Shuaitao Yang,Nan Zhou,Yunping Hu,Yuezhen Bin
Ternary composites as electrode materials have attracted extensive attention due to their excellent electrochemical performance in energy-storage technologies as compared to single or binary composites. Herein, we demonstrated a facile two-step method to construct a new hierarchical nanocomposite by combing buckypaper (BP) with γ-MnOOH nanorods and polyaniline. BP is used as a conductive substrate for the synthesis of free-standing hierarchical electrodes. The structural characterizations revealed the growth of a hierarchical porous structure of the ternary electrode. The synthesized polyaniline@γ-MnOOH–BP ternary composite electrode shows a maximum specific capacitance of 567.5 F g−1 at a current density of 0.5 A g−1 and a relatively high areal capacitance of 301.2 mF cm−2 at a current density of 0.27 mA cm−2. This intriguing result is ascribed to the good combination of BP, γ-MnOOH, and PANI. We believe that this ternary composite electrode has potential in portable, environmentally friendly, and wearable applications for next generation energy-storage devices.
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CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS
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2021
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IF 9.381
Penghui Wang,Yajie Pu,Yanhan Ren,Rong Yang,Wenjie Zhang,Xiaoyan Tan,Wenliang Xue,Shuai Liu,Shuang Li,Bo Chi
Traditional hydrogels often fail to match the dynamic interactions between mechanical and cellular behaviors exhibited by the natural cartilage extracellular matrix. In this research, we constructed a novel hybrid hydrogels system based on sodium alginate and polyglutamic acid. By controlling the grafting rate and concentration of polymer, the gelation time and mechanical strength can be adjusted between range of 8–28 s and 60–144 kPa. By adding microcrystalline cellulose into the system, so that the degradation time was prolonged (125%) and the swelling rate was reduced (470%). Additionally, the presence of hydrazone bonds gives the system some dynamic response characteristics, and the hydrogel exhibits excellent self healing and injectable ability. It was found that the system had positive cytocompatibility (80%), which accelerated regulatory gene expression in cartilage tissue. In conclusion, this injectable hydrogel with self-healing and customizable mechanical strength will have broad application prospects in future biomedical engineering.
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再生医学
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AICHE JOURNAL
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2018
·Vol. 64
·期 11
·3988-4001
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IF 3.326
Xiaowen Zhang,Jieling Hong,Helei Liu,Xiao Luo,Wilfred Olson,Paitoon Tontiwachwuthikul,Zhiwu Liang
In this work, the composite catalysts, SO 4 2 /ZrO 2 /γ-Al 2 O 3 (SZA), with different ZrO 2 and γ-Al 2 O 3 mass ratios were prepared and used for the first time for the carbon dioxide (CO 2 )-loaded monoethanolamine (MEA) solvent regeneration process to reduce the heat duty. The regeneration characteristics with five catalysts (three SZA catalysts and two parent catalysts) of a 5 M MEA solution with an initial CO 2 loading of 0.5 mol CO 2 /mol amine at 98°C were investigated in terms of CO 2 desorption performance and compared with those of a blank test. All the catalysts were characterized using X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, N 2 adsorption–desorption experiment, ammonia temperature programmed desorption, and pyridine-adsorption infrared spectroscopy. The results indicate that the SZA catalysts exhibited superior catalytic activity to the parent catalysts. A possible catalytic mechanism for the CO 2 desorption process over SZA catalyst was proposed. The results reveal that SZA1/1, which possesses the highest joint value of Brφnsted acid sites (BASs) and mesopore surface area (MSA), presented the highest catalytic performance, decreasing the heat duty by 36.9% as compared to the catalyst-free run. The SZA1/1 catalyst shows the best catalytic performance as compared with the reported catalyst for this purpose. Moreover, the SZA catalyst has advantages of low cost, good cyclic stability, easy regeneration and has no effect on the CO 2 absorption performance of MEA. © 2018 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J , 64: 3988–4001, 2018
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RSC Advances
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2019
·Vol. 9
·期 19
·10702-10714
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IF 3.049
Cunlong Li,Yuqing Zhang,Ming Yong,Wei Liu,Jiaqi Wang
In order to effectively clean oily seawater with anionic polyacrylamide (APAM), UiO-66 coated γ-Al2O3 (UA) composites were firstly synthesized using γ-Al2O3 as a template to induce the growth of high hydrophilic UiO-66 on its surface to form a uniform UA self-assembled membrane. The UA composites and self-assembled membrane were characterized and analyzed. Also, the membrane performance was investigated. The results show that the hydrophilicity of particles is enhanced with the water contact angle decreasing from 39.8° (γ-Al2O3 particles) to 26.2° (UA composites) by introducing the UiO-66 coating. Moreover, the UA self-assembled membrane performs attractive water yield and separation performance. The oil concentration in the permeate treated by the first class of UA self-assembled membrane declines apparently from 91.22 to 18.90 mg L−1, while the water yield is as high as 657.89 L m−2 h−1. The reclaimed separation experiments show that the membrane materials could be recycled by calcination at 200 °C and hydraulic cleaning, which gives the material potential application in cleaning oily seawater.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2017
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IF 3.671
Junhui Yang,Cuicui Ding,Liulian Huang,Min Zhang,Lihui Chen
γ-PGA-NHS ester, which was prepared using poly(γ-glutamic acid) (γ-PGA) and N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) as the raw materials, was synthesized to be a novel cross-linker of collagen. Fourier transform infrared spectra analysis suggested that the products displayed the characteristic absorption peak of ester. Results from nuclear magnetic resonance analysis indicated that the esterification degree of γ-PGA-NHS ester was increased with the increase of NHS. Modified collagen was prepared and characterized. The results of circular dichroism analysis indicated modified collagen retained the triple helix structure of natural collagen. Sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed that the molecular weight of collagen was increased after cross-linking. Peptide mapping of collagen suggested that cross-linked collagen possessed an enhanced resistance to trypsin degradation. Differential scanning calorimeter results showed that the denaturation temperature of collagen was improved from 68.1 ± 0.4 to 91.2 ± 0.5 °C (p < 0.05). Dynamic viscoelastic measurements demonstrated the improvement of thermal stability and reflected the exponential increase in η*. The cross-linked collagen retained porous structure and the pore size became larger as observed by scanning electron microscopy. The investigation results provided useful information to produce collagen with improved physicochemical properties, particularly the thermal stability via the use of γ-PGA-NHS ester as a biomacromolecule-based cross-linker.
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
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2022
·Vol. 29
·期 56
·84166-84179
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IF 5.19
Gao Panting,Li Yuran,Lin Yuting,Chang Liping,Zhu Tingyu
Catalytic hydrolysis of carbonyl sulfur (COS) from blast furnace gas is one of the keys to achieving ultra-low emission in the iron–steel industry. To improve the COS hydrolysis activity on γ-Al 2 O 3 catalyst at low temperature, catalysts with Fe or La as the active component were prepared by the impregnation method, the physical and chemical properties of the catalyst were characterized by ICP, XRF, XRD, BET, and TPD. The hydrolysis activity of COS and sulfur resistance ability on various catalysts were investigated in a fixed bed reactor combined with gas chromatography. The results show that the addition of Fe or La improves the COS hydrolysis activity due to the increase in alkaline sites on the catalyst surface. The roles of various alkaline sites on catalysts have been recognized. The weak alkaline center is the reaction site of COS hydrolysis, the middle and strong alkaline centers are the adsorption and oxidation sites of H 2 S. The Fe/Al 2 O 3 catalyst has higher hydrolytic activity and oxidative capacity for H 2 S removal due to forming more sulfate species on Fe. The La/Al 2 O 3 catalyst has higher hydrolysis efficiency in that H 2 S rapidly desorbs from the catalyst surface to the gas phase, and then, the activity of reaction sites is recovered. This provides an idea for the preparation of sulfur-resistant catalysts.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2019
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IF 8.355
Hai-Bin Qiu,Yi Hu,Han-Juan Chong,Li Yuan,Guo-Ping Sheng
Ionic liquids (ILs) have been widely applied in chemical industry due to their unique properties. There is mounting evidence that they are toxic to various living organisms. Thus, it is crucial to develop methods to efficiently degrade and mineralize ILs to reduce their potential risks to the environment. In this work, the degradation of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide ([C 4 MIM]Br), an imidazolium-based IL, was investigated in aqueous solution via 60 Co γ-ray irradiation. Results show that [C 4 MIM]Br could be effectively degraded by γ-ray irradiation. The irradiation-induced degradation of [C 4 MIM]Br fitted well to the pseudo-first-order kinetics model. The kinetic constant ( k ) increased linearly with the increase of irradiation dose rate (R 2 = 0.942) and solution pH value (R 2 = 0.974), and decreased with the increase of [C 4 MIM]Br concentration. Fourteen intermediates were detected using a liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis. Based on these intermediate products, the degradation pathways and mechanisms of [C 4 MIM]Br were proposed. The free radicals (e.g., aqueous electron (e aq – ), hydroxyl radical ( OH), and hydrogen atom (H )) generated by γ-ray irradiation showed synergistic effects in the degradation and mineralization of [C 4 MIM]Br. Moreover, the toxicity assessment using C. elegans and Chlorella pyrenoidosa as model organisms demonstrates that sufficient γ-ray irradiation could effectively reduce the potential risks of [C 4 MIM]Br and its intermediates to the environment. These findings of this study may offer an efficient and environmentally friendly approach for effectively removing ILs and other persistent organic pollutants.
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放射化学
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